Today’s highlights
If The Universe Is 13.8 Billion Years Old, How Can We See 46 Billion Light…
Distances in the expanding Universe don’t work like you’d expect. Unless, that is, you learn to think like a…
Ethan Siegel in Starts With A Bang!6 min read
How Different Will Humans Be in a Century?
A little or a lot, depending where you’re coming from
Alex Vikmanis 3 min read
How to Handle Work While Losing a Parent
Don’t do what I did
Lindsay Robertson 6 min read
This Is Not My Father’s China
The country I returned to was nothing like the place that had formed my tough, resourceful parents
Lucy Tan 7 min read
Best in Science
Psychologists Are Trying to Figure out Why We Don’t Go to Sleep (Even When We…
Self-control and your body clock both have their place in bedtime procrastination
Popular Science 8 min read
Best in Family
How Do We Define A ‘Deadbeat Dad’?
In response to Pusha-T’s assertion that Drake is a deadbeat dad and has a fathered a child he does not…
Tracy Moore in MEL Magazine8 min read
The Friend: Love Is Not a Big Enough Word
His wife was just thirty-four. They had two little girls. The cancer was everywhere, and the parts of dying…
Esquire 24 min read
Editors’ picks
I Grew Up in a Cult
It taught me a lot about real life
Fleur Brown 12 min read
Why Didn’t America Become Part of the Modern World?
The Great Lesson of the 20th Century — and How America Never Learned It
umair haque in Eudaimonia and Co 7 min read
How to Become an American Citizen
It took 15 months to change my permanent resident alien status - and I was lucky
Hector Acosta 10 min read
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